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[–] NIB@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact, in Europe you dont have to remove your shoes, yet noone has bombed any planes.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Flew back from Mexico last week and got to keep my shoes on. We all survived

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's because you got lucky and boarded an Airbus.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, it was a 737 Max. So maybe I got lucky.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but only because they didn't let you bring a water bottle! Imagine what would happen if you could just carry liquid onto the plane!!1!1!1!

[–] paskaeu25@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ay least electronics in registered baggage is not a joke. Once we travelled with big group of scuba divers. And one diver had his torch in the cabin bag. It was wrapped into socks to prevent it from breaking. Some way the torch got turned on. (Scuba diving torches are really powerful, thus heat decently). As a result socks heated up and smoke appeared in the whole plane. Nobody had any idea where the smoke is coming from. The personnel was running back and forth trying to find where it comes from. Their arms were shaking. No result. Even though alcohol on board was only for extra charge, personnel started offering it for free to passengers (probably to calm them down).

Eventually one of scuba divers decided to check his cabin bag. After opening it the huge amount of smoke rushed out of the bag.

It ended up well. It's good that it wasn't in the baggage section of the plane, coz fire could have started in there.

So electronics in baggage prohibition is no joke.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I initially thought you meant like a cutting torch and was very concerned, but then remembered torch is also used to refer to flashlights/handheld lights lol

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...Which is something that TSA would fully allow onto the plane and might not even qualify as "electronics" to be removed during checkin.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

America thrives off of marketing a sense of security. That's one of the ways they gain ownership of your soul and humanity.

I hear they are eating cats and dogs.

[–] 93maddie94@lemmy.zip 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It also varies from airport to airport. I get frustrated when I travel because I always get yelled at by TSA agents for following the directions of the previous airport. Some places want all devices out. Some only want laptops. Some want the bag of travel liquids out in their gallon bag. Some allow you to leave them in. But they all act like I’m supposed to know what their particular rules are.

[–] Kiernian@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is based on the TYPE of scanner each checkpoint has and that frequently differs from airport to airport.

The problem is, most of THEM don't even know that, so yeah, you appear mind-bogglingly stupid to them and they look needlessly arcane and possibly deliberately cruel and rude to you.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

But... Don't they deal with people from all over the country and world constantly? Ignorance can't be an excuse at that point.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's the US, they don't really know about the rest of the world, and apparently a fair number of them aren't sure what New Mexico or DC actually are and whether people from there ought to be arrested or not.

[–] Doxatek@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

My last airport experience was being stuck in line while the TSA people extremely aggressively screamed at some very elderly Hispanic grandparents who didn't have great English or great hearing for a very long time. They genuinely were trying to do their best.

I get that it's frustrating or whatever but holy shit they do like power tripping stuff too I feel like. The elderly gentleman thought he was supposed to approach to show I.d. but they wanted him to go somewhere else and they treated him like he was going to be an active shooter or something.

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[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 127 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's what nearly all the intrusion tests and studies have indicated. A big GOP created "make work" program of security theater.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A big GOP created "make work" program of security theater.

Less of a "make work" program and more of subsidy to keep the privatized airlines afloat.

Not sure how many people here remember the times immediately after 9/11, but a significant portion of the population were basically refusing to fly again for quite a while afterwards. Airlines were scrambling to get people to fly again and there were talks going around about them either going under or being socialized.

The TSA was basically a program meant to get scared Americans back on planes so airlines could maintain enough profitability to remain privately owned.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So it's a multi-layer fuck you to the people, then.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, especially when you realize that it’s basically a poor people punishment cause people with private jets don’t get the same treatment

[–] Akasazh 5 points 1 day ago

How come the terrorists that can't get on board of a commercial flight with their water-borne explosive charges haven't committed an act of terror with a private plane?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Years ago I had a short inter-country flight in the EU.

Forgot that I still had my swiss army knife in my jacket. Noticed before the scanners. Thought "fuck. oh well, worst case I'll leave it here".

The people at the scanners didn't say a word.

On the way back, I remembered the knife again. Again on front of the scanners.

This time they noticed.

"is that a pocket knife in the jacket?" "uh, damn. yes"

Guy checks out the knife. Hands it back to me "next time put it in the suitcase".

I put it into my jacket and get on the plane.

When we land, I grab my stuff, including the jacket from the overhead compartment.

Sometime taps me on my shoulder, I turn around and see a steward hand me my knife, grinning. It fell out of my jacket when I grabbed it

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Meanwhile, I get my dong dapped up every time I go through.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had a lady in Cairo working my breasts like she was taking the lids off jars. Hornk hornk hornk. All behind a curtain so my modesty was protected.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Common check to see if you have fake screw-on boobs

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe it happens more than we know in the middle east.

Any screw on boobies have to go in the trays, no exceptions.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A former congressman owned a stake in the company that made the scanners. That's why you go through scanners.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Michael Chertoff. Second secretary of the dept of Homeland security. Talk about a conflict of interest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff

[–] MuteDog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Iif terrorists were actually that big of a threat they would simply blow up the massive security line out in front of security.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 days ago

That's not dropping all the protocols, it's upgrading everyone to PreCheck

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The job of the TSA is not to provide security. Their job is to provide the illusion of security. They are basically living tranquilizers for the public.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It's also a nationwide jobs program as there almost no requirements to work there. They aren't actual law enforcement.

[–] Tire@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

They regularly fail audits and miss tons of guns.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, it doesn't work. I feel inconvenienced, not safer. I know if someone really wants to hijack or blow up the plane, they'll find a way.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't they just lie to me? "We've installed overhead ai systems with x Ray lidar invisiview technology throughout the airport, so no more need for security!"

Fucking even keep charging us for the fake technology and line your pockets. But let us all just walk to the damn terminal

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[–] kossa@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Having kids was that moment for me. Let me tell you: with children you are allowed to take as much liquid as you want through security. Even boiling water, to prepare formula 😂

I was like "WHAT? Why do you take it away for other passengers?" Just so they have to buy shitty, overpriced beverages, or what?

That's because no parent would ever be a terrorist. What kind of a heartless monster would put their kids in danger?

terrorist organizations begin recruiting single mothers...

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[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to remember flying before all that bullshit and we literally just pulled up to the plane on the tarmac and got on. You could arrive like ten minutes before takeoff. RETVRN

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I visited the cockpit once on an international flight. JAL Tokyo-London. Just asked if I could, and sure of course.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

DOGE could've had an easy win

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If they got rid of the TSA they would have probably been given a lot more public good will, of course it would mean that the job market would suddenly have been swamped by the biggest bunch of idiots that anyone has ever had to deal with.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

ICE is hiring.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Shortly after the whole high-security thing started there was a UK military officer who had been in charge of counterterrorism somewhere like Belfast, who was an expert in homemade bombs. He said the whole three-ounces of liquid thing was complete bullshit. He knew the specific ingredients they were saying people could potentially mix to make explosives in an airplane restroom, and he said no, these substances would absolutely not blow up a plane or blow a hole in a plane. They had to be combined slowly and carefully, almost drop by drop, in a temperature-controlled vessel, or they would react too fast, creating a violent splash that would merely give the would-be terrorist serious chemical burns.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 24 points 2 days ago

I used to work last mile logistics in a big city with an international airport. I lived there until my twenties and flew in and out many times before and after the TSA. I've seen the backend, where they have the robot explosive sniffer, and only witnessed them use it for one package I dropped off. It's all theatre.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I’ve forgotten a combination OC/CN spray (aka peppermace) in the bottom of a bag and been waved through. Complete clown shoes.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What if a terrorist organization just recruits a straight christian white dude. I doubt TSA would check him too closely.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hate to break it to you but straight Christian white dudes are pretty much THE demographic for domestic terrorist

Edit : I am a straight Christian white dude

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

I am a straight Christian white dude

We get it you're looking for a job

You have to submit your CV and a cover letter as well as go on our website and fill out 500 little boxes all of which are answered by your CV.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean just let me wear my fucking belt. I can deal with a lot of indignity, but holding my fucking pants up in line is just insult to injury when you're passing me through mothingfucking millimeter wave.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I recently traveled through Europe, the Middle East and Australia. In the bottom of my carry-on bag I forgot about a 1 l plastic water bottle that was about 3/4 full. None of the security scans in Australia, Malaysia, Doha, or Montreal said anything about it. For the first two airports, I also had two 500 mL water bottles in side pockets. Again, no issues.

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